| 1 | O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name, make known His doings among the peoples! |
| 2 | Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on
and
talk of all His marvelous deeds
and
devoutly praise them. |
| 3 | Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek
and
require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity]. |
| 4 | Seek, inquire of
and
for the Lord,
and
crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek
and
require His face
and
His presence [continually] evermore. |
| 5 | [Earnestly] remember the marvelous deeds that He has done, His miracles
and
wonders, the judgments
and
sentences which He pronounced [upon His enemies, as in Egypt]. |
| 6 | O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones, |
| 7 | He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. |
| 8 | He is [earnestly] mindful of His covenant
and
forever it is imprinted on His heart, the word which He commanded
and
established to a thousand generations, |
| 9 | The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His sworn promise to Isaac, |
| 10 | Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, |
| 11 | Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan as your measured portion, possession,
and
inheritance. |
| 12 | When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents
and
strangers in it, |
| 13 | When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, |
| 14 | He allowed no man to do them wrong; in fact, He reproved kings for their sakes, |
| 15 | Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm. |
| 16 | Moreover, He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread. |
| 17 | He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. |
| 18 | His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron
and
his soul entered into the iron, |
| 19 | Until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried
and
tested him. |
| 20 | The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go free. |
| 21 | He made Joseph lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, |
| 22 | To bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom. |
| 23 | Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. |
| 24 | There [the Lord] greatly increased His people and made them stronger than their oppressors. |
| 25 | He turned the hearts [of the Egyptians] to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants. |
| 26 | He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen. |
| 27 | They showed His signs among them, wonders
and
miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt). |
| 28 | He sent [thick] darkness and made the land dark, and they [God’s two servants] rebelled not against His word. |
| 29 | He turned [Egypt’s] waters into blood and caused their fish to die. |
| 30 | Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, even in the chambers of their kings. |
| 31 | He spoke, and there came swarms of beetles
and
flies and mosquitoes
and
lice in all their borders. |
| 32 | He gave them hail for rain, with lightning like flaming fire in their land. |
| 33 | He smote their vines also and their fig trees and broke the [ice-laden] trees of their borders. |
| 34 | He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, and that without number, |
| 35 | And ate up all the vegetation in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground. |
| 36 | He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the beginning
and
chief substance of all their strength. |
| 37 | He brought [Israel] forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. |
| 38 | Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon the people. |
| 39 | The Lord spread a cloud for a covering [by day], and a fire to give light in the night. |
| 40 | [The Israelites] asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. |
| 41 | He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it ran in the dry places like a river. |
| 42 | For He [earnestly] remembered His holy word
and
promise to Abraham His servant. |
| 43 | And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness
and
singing, |
| 44 | And gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], and they reaped the fruits of those peoples’ labor, |
| 45 | That they might observe His statutes and keep His laws [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) |
Cross references:
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Psalm 105:5 : Ps. 78:43-51.
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Psalm 105:9 : Luke 1:72, 73.
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Psalm 105:14 : Gen. 12:17; 20:3-7.
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Psalm 105:15 : I Chron. 16:8-22.
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Psalm 105:16 : Gen. 41:54.
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Psalm 105:17 : Gen. 45:5; 50:20, 21.
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Psalm 105:21 : Gen. 41:40.
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Psalm 105:23 : Gen. 46:6.
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Psalm 105:28 : Exod. 10:22; Ps. 99:7.
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Psalm 105:29 : Exod. 7:20, 21.
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Psalm 105:30 : Exod. 8:6.
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Psalm 105:31 : Exod. 8:17, 24.
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Psalm 105:32 : Exod. 9:23, 25.
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Psalm 105:33 : Ps. 78:47.
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Psalm 105:34 : Exod. 10:4, 13, 14.
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Psalm 105:36 : Exod. 12:29; Ps. 78:51.
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Psalm 105:37 : Exod. 12:35.
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Psalm 105:38 : Exod. 12:33.
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Psalm 105:39 : Exod. 13:21.
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Psalm 105:40 : Exod. 16:12-15.
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Psalm 105:41 : Exod. 17:6; Num. 20:11.
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Psalm 105:42 : Gen. 15:14.
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Psalm 105:44 : Deut. 6:10, 11.
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